Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) Requirements   2

The subject requirement provides the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the deployment and operation of temporary facilities supporting Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) efforts, in this instance remote immigration hearings at the Southwest Border to specifically include Laredo and Brownsville, Texas (TX). Temporary facilities under this requirement shall include all mechanical, electrical, plumbing, communications, information technology (IT) and other infrastructure services as required for a fully operational facility. Services shall include the administration, operation, and maintenance of the facilities.

MPP is intended to mitigate the humanitarian and border security crisis caused by the unusually high volume of migrants on the Southwest Border. Specifically, section 235(b)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides the DHS Secretary the authority to return an applicant for admission who is arriving on land from a contiguous territory to that territory from which he/she arrived on land pending removal proceedings under Section 240 of the INA. Under the section of the INA, which implements this authority, certain migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally or without documentation, including those who may apply for asylum, and will be placed into section 240 removal proceedings and returned to Mexico pending those hearings. It is critical that temporary facilities, specifically constructed of material which can be efficiently and effectively built and taken down, and services to be provided for under this requirement be urgently secured so that formal hearings may immediately commence.

Please see posted Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) Limited Source Justification FY19-0365 for additional detail.